Dr. Jason Rambach, gave a talk on “Building Virtual Worlds with 3D Sensing and AI” at the NEM Summit 2024 in Brussels on the 23.10.2024. The presentation was part of the AI for Virtual Worlds session organized by Future Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR). The presentation with results from the Project HumanTech and various XR projects based on object pose estimation technology from DFKI, was followed by an exciting panel discussion.
Contact: Dr. Jason Rambach
The HumanTech project, under the coordination of DFKI Augmented Vision – Dr. Jason Rambach, has reached another key milestone with a highly productive General Assembly Meeting held from 5 to 6 September 2024 at the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS), Athlone Campus, Ireland. As the project is on its final path toward completion next year, this meeting marked an important step in aligning strategies and objectives for the remaining phases.
The overall status of the project shows that everything is progressing as planned, with the pilots well on track and providing a solid foundation for both achieving the current project goals and supporting future research and development initiatives. Additionally, participants enjoyed a guided tour and live demonstration at TUS’s state-of-the-art robotics department, showcasing cutting-edge technology that will play a crucial role in advancing AI applications in the construction industry.
For more on HumanTech: https://humantech-horizon.eu/news/
Contact: Dr. Jason Rambach
Dr. Jason Rambach, coordinator of the EU Horizon Project HumanTech , participated in the “Digital Twins for Sustainable Construction” session at the Sustainable Places conference in Luxembourg (23.9-27.9) organized by projects of the Tech4Construction cluster.
Dr. Rambach presented results from the Project HumanTech, focusing on the automated Scan-to-BIM problem. In addition, he was a panel member for the ensuing discussion together with coordinator and members of other ongoing projects in construction and building management such as RobetArme, Beeyonders, InCube and Reincarnate.
Workshop schedule: https://www.sustainableplaces.eu/sp2024/exploring-digital-twins-machine-human-collaboration-and-sustainable-construction/
HumanTech project: https://humantech-horizon.eu/
Contact: Dr. Jason Rambach
The team of the EU Horizon Project HumanTech , consisting of Mahdi Chamseddine and Dr. Jason Rambach from DFKI Augmented Vision as well as Fabian Kaufmann from RPTU Kaiserslautern – department of Civil Engineering, received the 3rd place prize in the Scan-to-BIM challenge of the (Computer Vision in the Built Environment) CV4_AEC Workshop of the CVPR 2024 conference.
On the 18.6, the team presented their solution and results as part of the workshop program. Scan-to-BIM solutions are of great importance for the construction community as they automate the generation of as-built models of buildings from 3D scans, and can be used for quality monitoring, robotic task planning and XR visualization, among other applications.
HumanTech project: https://humantech-horizon.eu/
CV4AEC Workshop page: https://cv4aec.github.io/
Contact: Dr. Jason Rambach , Mahdi Chamseddine
We are excited to share that the Augmented Vision group got two papers accepted at the IEEE conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2024), the premier international forum for research in image and video-based face, gesture, and body movement recognition. FG 2024 took place in Istanbul, Turkey, from the 27th to 31st of May.
Homepage: https://fg2024.ieee-biometrics.org/
The accepted papers are:
Jilliam Maria Diaz Barros, Chen-Yu Wang, Jameel Malik, Abdalla Elsayed Abdou Elsayed Mohamed Arafa, Didier Stricker
Jilliam Maria Diaz Barros, Jason Raphael Rambach, Pramod Murthy, Didier Stricker
Contact: Jilliam Diaz Barros, Dr. Jason Rambach
Dr. Jason Rambach, coordinator of the EU Horizon Project HumanTech , organized the 2nd workshop on “AI and Robotics in Construction” at the European Robotics Forum 2024 in Rimini, Italy (13.3-15.3) in cooperation with the construction Robotics projects Beeyonders and RobetArme and the Tech4Construction cluster.
The workshop included presentations on the current state of the 3 organizing projects (HumanTech, Beeyonders and RobetArme) from their coordinators, followed by technical presentations from project partners (KU Leuven, SINTEF, ITAINNOVA) on topics such as robotic vision and navigation and human-robot interaction for construction, and closing with a user evaluation insights presentation by the German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAUA). The presentations were followed by a very interesting round table discussion on the challenges of robotic projects in construction.
Workshop schedule: https://humantech-horizon.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/AI-and-Robotics-in-Construction_ERF2024_Brochure.pdf
HumanTech project: https://humantech-horizon.eu/
Contact: Dr. Jason Rambach
We are proud to announce that the researchers of the department Augmented Vision will present 6 papers at the upcoming CVPR conference taking place Mon Jun 17th through Fri Jun 21st, 2024 at the Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, USA.
The CVPR conference is the premier international conference in computer vision and pattern recognition.
The 6 papers are:
MiKASA: Multi-Key-Anchor Scene-Aware Transformer for 3D Visual Grounding
Chun-Peng Chang, Shaoxiang Wang, Alain Pagani, Didier Stricker
HiPose: Hierarchical Binary Surface Encoding and Correspondence Pruning for RGB-D 6DoF Object Pose Estimation
Yongliang Lin, Yongzhi Su, Praveen Nathan, Sandeep Inuganti, Yan Di, Martin Sundermeyer, Fabian Manhardt, Didier Stricker, Jason Rambach, Yu Zhang
SG-PGM: Partial Graph Matching Network with Semantic Geometric Fusion for 3D Scene Graph Alignment and Its Downstream Tasks
Yaxu Xie, Alain Pagani, Didier Stricker
Sparse Semi-Detr: Sparse Learnable Queries for Semi-Supervised Object Detection
Tahira Shehzadi, Khurram Azeem Hashmi, Didier Stricker, Muhammad Zeshan Afzal
CAD-SIGNet: CAD Language Inference from Point Clouds using Layer-wise Sketch Instance Guided Attention
Mohammad Sadil Khan, Elona Dupont, Sk Aziz Ali, Kseniya Cherenkova, Anis Kacem, Djamila Aouada
EventEgo3D: 3D Human Motion Capture from Egocentric Event Streams
Christen Millerdurai, Hiroyasu Akada, Jian Wang, Diogo Luvizon, Christian Theobalt, Vladislav Golyanik
Congratulations to the authors for this great achievement!
DFKI Augmented Vision researcher Mahdi Chamseddine received the Best Industrial Paper award at International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM) 2024 for the paper:
CaRaCTO: Robust Camera-Radar Extrinsic Calibration with Triple Constraint Optimization. Mahdi Chamseddine, Jason Rambach, Didier Stricker, ICPRAM 2024
The paper introduces a simplified and improved extrinisic calibration approach for camera-radar systems without the need for external sensing and with additional optimization constraints for added robustness.
DFKI Augmented Vision presented 3 other papers at ICPRAM 2024.
Contact: Mahdi Chamseddine, Dr. Jason Rambach
The HumanTech project, coordinated by DFKI Augmented Vision – Dr. Jason Rambach, has reached an important milestone: A highly successfully Mid-Term Review Meeting!
From 22 to 24 January 2024, representatives from the 21 partner organisations that comprise the consortium gathered in Zurich, Switzerland (hosted by the partner Implenia) to comprehensively review its midterm progress since starting in June 2022. The process has helped the consortium to align priorities to further its mission — to achieve breakthroughs in cutting-edge technologies, contributing to a safer, more efficient and digitized European construction industry. The review meeting consisted of a construction site visit, presentations of the project progress for all work packages and an exciting demo event with live HumanTech technologies.
More on HumanTech: https://humantech-horizon.eu/news/
Contact: Dr. Jason Rambach
We are happy to announce that the Augmented Vision group presented 2 papers in the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) that took place from the 4th -8th January 2024 in Waikoloa, Hawaii.
Homepage: https://wacv2024.thecvf.com/
The 2 accepted papers are:
Contact: Dr. Jason Rambach, Dr. Alain Pagani